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Direct linkPreston, Teresa – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Reading instruction has been the subject of significant controversy for more than five decades, and Kappan has allowed advocates of many different types of reading instruction to make their cases in the magazine's pages. Teresa Preston chronicles the history of the reading wars as they played out in Kappan. Researchers and scholars have debated…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Phonics, Reading Strategies, Whole Language Approach
Peer reviewedFisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy; Lapp, Diane – Journal of Education, 2023
The term "balanced literacy" was popularized in the mid-1990s to describe a middle ground in terms of text selection, instruction, skills, and strategies. The intention was to merge the promising elements of whole language and phonics. Interactions with educators and literacy leaders across the country currently suggest that a term that…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Literacy Education, Definitions
Semingson, Peggy; Kerns, William – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
In this historical analysis, we examine the context of debates over the role of phonics in literacy and current debates about the science of reading, with a focus on the work and impact of the late literacy scholar Jeanne Chall. We open by briefly tracing the roots of the enduring debates from the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on beginning…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Phonics, Literacy, Beginning Reading
Download full textCaroline R. van der Mescht – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2023
Background: In the context of the ongoing crisis in early reading literacy in South Africa, this article gives insight into teacher practices which reduce learners' opportunities to read continuous text for meaning. Aim: This ethnographic study investigated the microcosm of teacher practices in well-resourced environments. Setting: A purposive…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Phonics, Grade 1
Solity, Jonathan – Review of Education, 2022
There have been few areas in England over the last 50 years where government has drawn more heavily on research to inform policy and practice than in the area of teaching reading. The focus of this article is an analysis of the research and evidence on early reading, in particular the role of phonics, on which government policy in England and the…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Reading Instruction, Educational Policy, Public Policy
Kelly Robson Foster; Tanvi Kodali; Bonnie O’Keefe; Andrew J. Rotherham; Andy Jacob – Bellwether, 2024
Improving reading instruction is one of the hottest topics in K-12 education today. It is also one of the most complex, encompassing pedagogy, policy, and politics -- all rooted in a long history of arguments about the best way to teach kids to read. This analysis is a primer on the "Science of Reading" and efforts to implement it across…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Educational Trends, Educational Policy, Reading Instruction
